Just under five days – time taken to brute force all passwords up through eight characters in length;

12 – average number of passwords cracked per user account (either because they used a poor password, or it was eight characters or less, or both;

87.8 per cent of the passwords cracked were broken using the easily available CrackStation password cracking Password Dictionary. By comparison only 12.2 per cent of the passwords cracked via brute force. The lesson, the author says, is using wordlists is very efficient;

27 characters – the longest password cracked; It was a name and digits repeated several times (Lesson: Employees do understand they have to use more than eight characters, and they still cheat), Someone used “Thisisalongpassword.” That wasn’t bad — except they used the string more than once, so it was cracked.